Extent: 109 leaves : paper ; 211 x 136 (154 x 86) mm bound to 215 x 137 mm
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Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch and from description pasted inside upper cover. Binding pulling loose in places; spine breaking between ff. 36-37. Cover splitting, cracking and peeling at spine and at edges. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch) and from description pasted inside upper cover; see also f. 1r, 2r and 3r. Spine title: Prefatio nel Genesi. Ms. codex. Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink. Script: Written in a 16th-century humanistic script by a single hand, allegedly in the autograph of Pietro Aretino (seller's description, inside upper cover). Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch). Some oxidation of ink in places, occasionally making the text hard to read. Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Sold by Martin Breslauer, cat. 67 (1949), no. 7. Appears in Weiss cat. 1 (1926), no. 3. Formerly owned by Vicentius Marini (bookplate, inside upper cover).
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